COSTUME CLASH AT PREMEX

23 November 2011

Premex employees demonstrated striking contrasts
in fancy dress choices after the company combined two charity
fundraising drives on the same day. Dozens of ladies and gents
donned pretty in pink outfits for Breast Cancer Campaign's 'Wear it
Pink' day only to arrive at the company's Bolton Headquarters to be
faced off by ghoulish Halloween monsters, blood-soaked zombies and
psychotic surgeons.

The Halloween charity event saw a good mixture of ghouls versus
pinks and overall the teams raised over £750 for the two charities.
Please click here to view some pictures from the
day

The Halloween crowd was fundraising for the MPS Society, which
stands for Mucopolysaccharidosis. There are several different types
of this condition; Children with the disease are born without a
certain enzyme in their body which means that they slowly mentally
and physically deteriorate over time due to the cells not being
broken down in the body, this means that they could usually die
about the age of 6 - 8 years old.

This society aims to raise awareness of this disease as the
types are so rare that they only affect about 1 in 110,000
children. As well as this the society tries to raise money for the
children to go through operations such as bone marrow transplants
and enzyme replacement therapy, hip replacement and so on. They
provide funding for families who have to stay in hospital. They
also provide days out for the children, as after a few years some
children will be in a wheelchair and they find it hard to get
out.

Breast cancer campaign is currently supporting 101 research
projects worth over £17.2 million in 34 centres of excellence
across the UK and Ireland.